Mayor Mick Cornett announces that Oklahoma City will have its own professional hockey team for the upcoming 2010/2011 season during a press conference at the Cox Convention Center Tuesday. PHOTO BY MAIKE SABOLICH

Kyle Dean, associate director and research economist at the Center for Applied Economic Research at the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, talks about economic forecasts for the state of Oklahoma during the Oklahoma Association of Realtors' lucheon at the Skirvin Thursday. PHOTO BY MAIKE SABOLICH